The budget, which further cuts funding for already cash-strapped conservation and natural resource programs, is out of step with everyday Americans who appreciate parks and public lands and see them as critical parts of our economy and our shared history as a nation.

The report, titled “Green Investments,” highlights the need for lawmakers to appropriately fund programs that safeguard America’s natural resources and the agencies that oversee them, which together account for only a tiny sliver of wh

While 2014 is the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, the law that set the framework to preserve the nation’s most pristine landscapes, it also marks five years since Congress last protected any land as designated wilderness.